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PowerVS Disabling Automated Remote Restart, but move a instance another healthy host

The current Disabling ARR prevents moving to another host after a host when failure.But we need new behavior to Disabling ARR - "A instance is moved to another healthy host . But it is not automatically restarted. When a host is failed, we don't w...
25 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Functionality already exists

Create a couple of VSIs, one with IBM i, and one with AIX for public access with self learning purposes

For training purposes in our Telegram group "IBM i en Español" I have a free hosted IBM i LPAR in Mexico so all users can ask for access and test their programs, refresh their knowledge or follow tutorials to learn about this amazing OS. Pub400.co...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 5 Not under consideration

Network Security Groups for PowerVS public interfaces

A customer configured a public interface/IP address on their PowerVS VSI to allow outbound EDI connections. They are experiencing a large number of inbound hacking attempts. They would like to enable PowerVS Network Security Groups on the public i...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Add a CLONE command to the Power-IaaS Plugin in CLI

We have built a couple of scripts to ease our IBM Power Virtual Server administration: exporting to disk, exporting to COS, snapshots, launching consoles on browser, and now we have built a clone VSI process, exporting to disk and building the VSI...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 7 Functionality already exists

WebConsole Cut&Paste - Fix and change request

The cut&paste is a really great improvement that many users were asking for from the beginning of PowerVS. Fix request: I have tried to use the VSI WebConsole Cut&Paste feature following the docs using Windows, Linux and MacOS with no succ...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to initiate an AIX memory dump on a non-responsive LPAR

When an LPAR becomes non-responsive AIX Support requires a system dump for analysis. With direct access to a HMC this is a simple operation, either through the GUI or in the CLI via the chsysstate command. The PowerVS CLI provides the "pi instance...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 9 Planned for future release

Monitoring shared pool utilization

I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Functionality already exists

Block the creation of a public subnet/interface in PowerVS workspaces at Enterprise Level or IAM

Banco Itau wants to hide/block the creation of the public subnet and/or powervs vm public interface. There must be a way to block this creation at Enterprise level or an IAM action specific for PowerVS public interface. In VPC environment we have ...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Future consideration

Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration